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Re: Makefile timestamp synchronization problem
- To: N8TM at aol dot com
- Subject: Re: Makefile timestamp synchronization problem
- From: Joel Sherrill <joel at OARcorp dot com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 08:26:37 -0500 (CDT)
- cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998 N8TM@aol.com wrote:
> I have seen these warnings occasionally when building on cygwin32/NT4 with all
> files local (never on cygwin32/w95), and frequently when building on HPUX10.20
> with files on a server. I'll try it next week building locally on HPUX10.20.
> I've never seen any failures associated with this, so I've always ignored
> them. It would be nice to have fewer "expected" warnings so that it's easier
> to spot trouble.
How can this happen on a completely local build? You should always be
getting a consistent date/time which is increasing when on a single
machine. Being on a network opens up the possibility of the server's time
not matching that on a client.
--joel